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Who is profit good for?
For everyone. Who is profit not good for? Someone has chosen to pay the company for the good, that's their decision to do so. The company has provided the good. The consumer is better off because of it. And he or she has paid for the good. So yeah it's good for everyone.
The wage slaves.
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> Google gifted schools Chromebooks, which seems like an incredible act of charity. Except for the fact that you have to pay a subscription to Google to use them. Do you happen to have a reference for this? G suite for education is free as far as I know and I wasn't able to find anything else that you might be referring to.
Check out this page for a start on Chrome device licenses: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/2717664?hl=en You can see an educational portal listing the cost of the management license at $30 here, which isn't really a complete picture, but demonstrates that we aren't talking about something they give schools for free: https://edu.google.com/products/devices/ Note that this is kinda of well-hidden, but that l…
You need to show that those licenses were not included in the gift. And let's just assume that they're not that stupid.
> Note that this is kinda of well-hidden, but that last link cites the "total cost of ownership" of a $149 Chromebook over three years as $588, which should give you an idea the difference between the hardware they give away, and the eventual cost of everything you need to deploy the suckers.
For a budget windows laptop or tablet the hardware cost would be higher and the support cost unlikely to be lesser.
> Schools is definitely big money for Google
Schools are a tiny segment for Google that would not hurt them in the slightest to lose. The margins on low-end hardware are not exactly the stuff dreams are made of, and they really are making peanuts on ChromeOS. We can and should contrast this to Microsoft, who has been playing the "loss leader" pricing game in educational circles for far longer with far more success.
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Sure, then I'll get a different laptop. Or maybe by that point free software on other devices will be far enough along that I won't need a laptop? The future is networked, inescapably. It's fine to advocate for local data, but don't expect that to mean data on a drive in a box on my desk.
If we can make a future happen where I can control software and data on a remote device, in a way that works for students, then sure. Otherwise, I wouldn't count pure access to the internet/web as actual victory for GNU/Linux. (Maybe as victory for education opportunities, productivity, etc., but tying that back to Linux is a very indirect connection.) Either way, ChromeOS doesn't contribute to taking (co-)ownership…
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Note to OP. 1) You need a 3rd button for each submission that says "Already Solved". People can post links to SaaS products that already solve the exact problem the users are posting... Example: Following 2 Submission have several products that solve the exact same problem. - Gamify budgeting so I save more money => https://www.demandrush.com/problems/gamified-savings-app - Community chat on my website => https://www…
These are great suggestions. Thank you!
Just because a solution exists does not mean that it's a suitable one, or can't be improved upon.
Does anything like this exist for putting bounties on small scripts / extensions? I just posted these questions yesterday, in the hope of finding solutions to a couple common annoyances I have with Google search: https://superuser.com/questions/1218986/keyboard-shortcut-to... https://superuser.com/questions/1218989/how-to-maintain-orde... I don't want the overhead of "hiring a freelancer" to do the work. But I'd defi…
Just independently saw a link to Bounty Source today. This appears to be very similar to what I'm asking for, although more designed around adding bounties to GitHub issues for features/bugs on existing projects.
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I definitely understand the price issue. It might not be a lucrative or attractive business for existing freelancers. BUT... people already do this stuff for free. Create free Chrome Extensions to make some tweak on a website. Spend hours crafting a script for an answer on Stack Overflow, only to get fake internet points. I asked the questions above on SuperUser, a website that theoretically does exactly what I'm ask…
The thing is, the motivation is different when it's fake internet points than when it's actual money. The relationship between the people is different, too. The way it works now, the relationship is a cordial, friendly, familiar relationship (even though the people don't actually know each other in many cases). Throw money into the deal, even the paltry $10, and now it becomes a business relationship, with all that e…
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- I don't want to own the resulting code. Open Source delivery, or a link to someone else's extension that accomplishes the goal. - Payment on the order of $10 for some simple script, not $300+. They can make up the difference via multiple bounties, selling to multiple people, etc. - Public question that can be found by others with the same problem (who can upvote or add to the bounty), as well as people who are able…
> I don't want anything to do with reading resumes, selecting the worker, scheduling, payments, etc. at the end of the day you need to validate that the person is going to be able to write this code and that you are going to follow through with payment. Either way it opens up one party to risk. A developer risks putting in the work without payment and the financial backer risks non completion after they pay. For inst…
Version 2.0 would hook payment up to a successful pass of the test hook!
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Well, GIMP's interface is definitely different from PS. And I wouldn't argue better... But PS is the only program I have ever had to take a class in to be productive in, as it was clearly built to be familiar to people with very clearly-formed ideas about workflow, e.g. old-school photography and design folks. And switching to GIMP is possible methinks, you just have to learn the interface. Just like Photoshop...
GIMP does not even have a circle tool, and I don't think working around pointless limitations like that counts as "learning the interface." The commenter above you used the software for 15+ years and specifically cited that lack of feature parity is the only criticism keeping them on CC. I have used both as well and do not follow your opinion about Photoshop, maybe because I never used those old school design tools.…
Why do you feel so strongly against 'learning the interface'? That "tired and uninformed defense" is also... what you must do. Why is everyone so afraid of learning?? Fucking wimps. You have a problem, you google it, repeat til you know the product. SO HARD!
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The problem is a lot of those "altruistic purposes" tend not to be so altruistic, when you look into why they do them. Take for example, when Google recently chose to donate a bunch of hardware to schools instead of giving their employees an annual gift. Google gifted schools Chromebooks, which seems like an incredible act of charity. Except for the fact that you have to pay a subscription to Google to use them. Whic…
For an educational environment I would be hard pressed to name a more appropriate device than a chromebook. From a hardware perspective the Chromebooks are cheap, practically disposable. ChromeOS is open source, but also secure and easy to manage. And there is no subscription or license cost for the 'G Suite for Education'. Even if that were true, the schools would be under no obligation to accept the gift, so it's h…
And of course, as my source demonstrated, there is definitely a license cost to use Chromebooks in a managed environment, and it is not free for educators.
As the situation is _right now_, the law is probably fine, but I'd be against the parent's suggestion of allowing a loophole for them to get to repatriate cash tax-free for this sort of usage, because it's likely just going to work out in their favor, and not in ours or the public interest.